Social housing providers still need more support to tackle planning delay
Jonathan Pearson warns the country’s 'slow and cumbersome' planning process is currently preventing local authorities from adequately responding to housing need.
Government to penalise companies for ‘plague of potholes’
13/05/2022 The Government will introduce new measures to penalise companies responsible for leaving potholes on the roads after carrying out street works. |
England’s poorest areas hit hardest by austerity
03/05/2022 Residents living in England’s most deprived areas were hit hardest by the largest local authority spending cuts during a decade of austerity, think tank says. |
Council resurfaces road using recycled car tyres
21/04/2022 A new technique that uses recycled car tyres to resurface roads has been used in Lancashire for the first time, the county council has confirmed. |
Nearly 40% of electorate prioritising affordable housing in local elections
21/04/2022 Four in 10 Britons say affordable decent housing needs to be improved ahead of the local elections, a new poll reveals. |
Councils pay out £12m in pothole compensation
13/04/2022 Councils and road authorities paid out more than £12m in compensation to motorists whose cars were damaged by potholes between 2018 and 2021, research reveals. |
DfT launches £30m competition to drive local highways decarbonisation
07/04/2022 DfT has launched the second round of the Live Labs competition, which is aimed at supporting projects to decarbonise local highways infrastructure. |
Councils face over £12bn pothole backlog
22/03/2022 Local authority highway departments are struggling to patch up local roads and face a backlog of pothole repairs worth billions, an annual survey has revealed. |
Scottish local road backlog 'close to £1.7bn'
15/03/2022 Scottish government has insisted it provides enough funding for councils after the cost of repairing the country’s local roads was estimated at almost £1.7bn. |
Rod Stewart video prompts warning about DIY pothole repairs
14/03/2022 Essex County Council has urged residents not to try and fix potholes themselves after Sir Rod Stewart was filmed carrying out repairs. |
Pothole breakdowns hit record high
14/01/2022 RAC’s patrols attended over 10,000 pothole-related breakdowns last year – the equivalent of 27 every single day and the highest annual total since 2018. |
Reading council leads on £3.3m project to transform station
18/08/2021 Works for major improvements to Reading West Station began this week with roadworks on the Oxford Road to make space for a brand new station building. |
Shapps announces £15m congestion and pothole scheme
13/08/2021 Transport Secretary Grant Shapps today announced a multimillion-pound scheme to improve traffic signals and explore the use of drones to help fix local roads. |
Councils can issue traffic fines from December
15/06/2021 Powers to enforce moving traffic offences will not be extended to local authorities in England outside London until the end of the year, a Department for Transport (DfT) minister has said. |
Swindon wins again on Eastern Village infrastructure cash
17/05/2021 Swindon BC has scooped another tranche of roads cash for the New Eastern Villages development, with the DfT allocating a further £11.6m to supporting works. |
Cost to fix pothole-ridden local roads £10.24bn
31/03/2021 The estimated one-time cost to get local roads in England and Wales back into a ‘reasonable, steady state’ is £10.24bn, according to this year’s ALARM survey. |
Council chiefs warn of ‘chronic need’ for bridge repair funding
02/03/2020 Local leaders have said there is a ‘chronic need’ for investment in local roads in response to a report on the number of substandard road bridges in Britain. |
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Councils awarded share of £93m fund to repair potholes
02/03/2020 Local authorities are to be awarded a share of a multi-million pound funding pot to repair roads and bridges, the Government has announced. |
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Councils urged to apply for £120,000 local road fund
17/09/2019 Local authorities are today being urged to apply for a new grant fund aimed at improving the safety of local roads. |
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TfN submits £700m proposals for National Roads Fund
21/08/2019 Transport for the North has submitted £700m bids to the National Roads Fund, including 12 schemes for the major road network and four for large local majors. |
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Grayling warned £350m local roads fund is ‘not enough’
22/07/2019 Council chiefs have told the Government a recently announced £350m funding boost to help improve local roads is not an alternative to long-term investment. |
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Funding cuts could have paid for eight million pothole repairs, council chiefs say
08/07/2019 Council leaders have called for more cash after calculating money cut from road funding budgets over the last decade could have fixed millions of potholes. |
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London roads backlog hits £1bn
04/06/2019 The road maintenance backlog in London has hit more than £1bn for the first time, as boroughs concede they are presiding over a state of managed decline. |
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Grayling orders councils to stop 'bamboozling' pedestrians
23/04/2019 Transport secretary Chris Grayling has ordered councils to stop 'bamboozling' pedestrians by putting up road signs using metric measurements. |
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Budget 2018: Cash for care could be swallowed up by rates relief
28/10/2018 Chancellor Phillip Hammond is expected to announce nearly a billion pounds for social care in an austerity-busting budget later today. |
Shell is helping power the journey towards a circular paving industry with Shell Bitumen LT R, a new product for roads that uses plastics destined for landfill as part of the additives to make the bitumen.
Effective Energy Group is now offering its support to the 40 Local Authorities who have received a share of the £430m to deliver their projects on the ground by surveying properties and installing measures.
Dougie Belmore explains how one of the main interfaces between you and Bacs is about to change.
